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The IOC said that it extended provisional measures against Russia over its doping scandal "until further notice" pending the evaluation of a World Anti-Doping Agency-commissioned report, according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. The measures, first imposed on July 19 following the publication o...

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Russian billionaire and Arsenal co-Owner Alisher Usmanov, who invested $100M in competitive video-gaming last year , "is seeing the money put to work as the company he backs, ESforce, attempts to dominate the growing sport in eastern Europe," according to Ilya Khrennikov of BLOOMBERG. ESforce is "h ...

The China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) has admitted there have been "six recent positive drugs tests by Chinese swimmers but denied claims of a cover-up," according to Neil Gardner of the LONDON TIMES. According to the TASS news agency, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) also claimed it had "no ...

The full scale of doping in Russian swimming over the past decade was revealed after investigations "uncovered an alarming picture of systematic drug use in the sport," according to Lord, Ziegler, Dickinson & Broadbent of the LONDON TIMES.
The doping scandal that engulfed Russian athletics "is n ...

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Tuesday that he was "prepared to resign over a raging doping scandal in his country" which could cost more Russian athletes their places at the Rio Olympics after "tens" more cases of cheating were exposed in wrestling, according to Jack Stubbs ...

Russian football club FC Rostov, a surprise on top of the Russian Premier League, sometimes dubbed as "the Russian Leicester," has gotten a new general sponsor, agricultural group Agrokom.
The deal of an undisclosed value was signed through the end of the '15-16 season, but Agrokom said it is intere ...

A Rio Olympic athletics program without Russia looked an "ever-stronger possibility" on Friday after the IAAF said the track and field superpower had "significant work to do" to have its ban for doping lifted in time, according to Phillips & Stubbs of REUTERS. But the comments from the IAAF "inc ...

Russia "could be forced to repay millions of pounds of prize money before its ban from world athletics is lifted," according to Ben Rumsby of the London TELEGRAPH.
A two-day meeting of the IAAF council "will on Friday hear from the task force established to monitor the country during its suspension, ...

Maria Sharapova was warned by tennis authorities "no fewer than five times in the month before she failed a doping test" that the drug she was taking "had been added to the list of banned substances," according to Martyn Ziegler of the LONDON TIMES. The 28-year-old is facing a "lengthy suspension" a ...

Dick Pound, the investigator whose "coruscating investigation" into Russian track and field led to it being suspended from int'l competition, said that Russian athletics is not devoting "enough energy" to rid itself of doping and has a "steep hill" to climb if it wants to compete at this year&r ...

Maria Sharapova's sponsors "have taken action to suspend deals and even sever links with the former Wimbledon champion after she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open," according to Martyn Ziegler of the LONDON TIMES. Tag Heuer, the luxury watch manufacturer, said that it will not renew its spo ...